These guys found information. Lots of it. I'd say that's FUD alright but not the way you're referring. The Xerox text you pasted is nice and all but has no bearing on what the office staff will do when they get rid of an old copier. Who cares if there is a feature to wipe the disk if it's never used? Who cares if there is a program to buy the hard drive from the unit if it's never purchased, let alone that most people don't even grasp the contents of storage in one of these devices. And what if they don't have a Xerox? I have received temp units in offices I service when the leased unit had to go into the shop for a major repair. Every temp unit I have seen had documents stored in the device from the previous offices.
If you have MFP's, you better look up how to have the device properly reset/formatted/whatever if you have sensitive info that's been run through it when they're replaced. Stored jobs, scan-to & document server capabilities are features many units have. -- Mike Gill From: David Mazzaccaro [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, April 23, 2010 7:50 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Copier Hard Drives and sensitive data? This article is full of FUD. Read the comments... Here's the link.. it was CBS... <http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/04/19/eveningnews/main6412439.shtml> http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/04/19/eveningnews/main6412439.shtml _____ From: David McSpadden [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, April 23, 2010 10:47 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Copier Hard Drives and sensitive data? Operations Officer comes to me this morning and asks if we wipe our copiers clean before we give them away or throw them away. I say we clean everything before we ever let it go out of our department but why are you asking about copiers. He proceeds to tell me about a 20/20 or 60 minutes spot where some person but 5 copiers and got all kinds of personal info from police departments and what not's because copiers have hard drives in them and they retain everything that is copied to them over time. So, is this true? If so is there a way to 'clean' them before reselling them or trashing them and still keeping them functional? . ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
